From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,T_DKIM_INVALID shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail-wm0-x230.google.com (mail-wm0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::230]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CC2C5209FA for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2017 07:01:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wm0-x230.google.com with SMTP id w64so55518565wma.0 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2017 00:01:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=godfat.org; s=google; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=4RFpXmOLL7YdyFOJ8x+ZvTIBZDatm0Fz9i9UQRX0kXc=; b=HFIWcgiVmOloYEzePASs4NBt/lbdSolXV53KkAPHhCw6lxgxR16wxheUP9TMW8Si3Q 8w+jc+IA+qM0dyaOmQZB1Z+sDwdhJfbgC4juWVYE7Bbq+jvXpy0MQ24/rWqTFT7Hu/rc mR32J5J0eldFm/OQ4oQNKQQFj3ZPgRXrwARPI= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=4RFpXmOLL7YdyFOJ8x+ZvTIBZDatm0Fz9i9UQRX0kXc=; b=B4hsm3BP5ivXai83djB4Vlpj5TGYrNRfn/CmVjfUs0BPHNNONjp+asaXPnlcbfCPwS ianjvnJJEhzxI4g7yXQwzGH+yXmzDxmyYeY0P8DMOQruHiiJHtKhZBYJyOQZU4hfzsF9 1TTCC5rf2WycJ7n6RNb6yn7YcoXaF7Y3aP5ht2CGsNN2I+w4pIon6WpFzMtjGSL3f9Sq kY+vDnocRxTKFI4VsRmmvGdOxNhMeB0wDqQBM12OZdkZws1tIuoj9eFVXPKiW5rOyVIt DbtjxyDLxm3Lhxb2lrC2tiSzNcM0erI4ZCCoFgr7eP5W7NZmExdjKShnX8O3X0F9oRda fE3Q== X-Gm-Message-State: AN3rC/5lNSTJjVKh1NjPNEdFyuRkmTsevY9b2TPyxs6GQ+Rgr3z5optn qL3rqkQSF/P6pZ0t7bOSKxSpyUbIhzK+ X-Received: by 10.28.54.7 with SMTP id d7mr12864838wma.114.1491894090886; Tue, 11 Apr 2017 00:01:30 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.142.130 with HTTP; Tue, 11 Apr 2017 00:01:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20170410203905.GA2922@whir> References: <20170410145416.GA29475@starla> <20170410173657.GA4203@starla> <20170410203905.GA2922@whir> From: "Lin Jen-Shin (godfat)" Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 15:01:00 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] README: add info about mailing list subscription To: Eric Wong Cc: kcar-public@bogomips.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 List-Id: On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 4:39 AM, Eric Wong wrote: > "Lin Jen-Shin (godfat)" wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 1:36 AM, Eric Wong wrote: >> > I guess another question is: do you use IMAP to read mail >> > or webmail (or something else, POP3)? >> >> Oh, now I understand what you're saying. Unfortunately >> I am currently stuck with GMail, using the web interface. >> I could setup POP3 to receive emails into my inbox (I did so >> for some other accounts), but I guess I could not setup IMAP >> for GMail. > > Actually, GMail supports SMTP and IMAP; they just give scary > warnings about enabling them because they lack 2FA support. > git manpages for git-imap-send(1) and git-send-email(1) > document GMail support, even. I think GMail does support IMAP as a server, but not as a client? I thought if you're setting up an IMAP server, I need to use an IMAP client to fetch the mails? Or that's not the plan? Or I misunderstand how IMAP works. I never really used it. >> > For a sysadmin, the beauty of NNTP is there's no per-client >> > state stored on the server itself. It's all in the client. >> > Same for Atom feeds. >> >> I could setup/run some daemons on my server, as long as >> the mails could eventually deliver to my inbox so that my >> regular workflow would stay the same. I don't know what >> could do that though. > > I'm not sure if NNTP tools exist for NNTP=>IMAP or NNTP=>POP3; > yet. But if I write an NNTP=>POP3 server, it'll more likely > be a part of yahns (Ruby) and not part of public-inbox (Perl5) > at this point; so maybe you would be willing host that for > other people, too :) Yeah, sure, as long as I don't have to expand my existing server, I am willing to host it and maintain it for other people. Cheers,